I like horror, but I find the typical vampire and ghost type stuff dull and uninteresting. I feel vampires have been too romanticised and mainstreamed to actually be scary nowadays. At the most they are threatening in the same way a thug carrying a gun is.

I enjoy Stephen King's work, I like his short story collections better than the main body of his work though. I love The Stand though. I quite enjoy James Herbert's work as well, I recently read Others again, much to my delight.

Generally I prefer various short stories in the horror genre over full novels, such as the work often published in Black Static magazine.

@moonwalker lol i hate nightmares but i agree, they provide a lot of new material :)

@darkliquid vampire stories know what you mean about vampires, but it doesnt stop me reading it, or writing it ^_^ and short stories leave more to the imagination, where longer stories or full length novels say too much, get too complicated and just end up confusing me haha :)

Note - Nightmares are the greatest thing. Since nearly every single of my dreams constist of somebody or something getting murdered, mauled, maimed or mutated, I have come to like things like that. It's reflected in my writing - if any of you guys have read it,you'll see haha. So A quick question - Do they still count as nightmares if I like them?

Anyways. House of Night. Really good. I Liiiike. Do not like Zoey. Eugh. But Stark, Damien, Jack and the Twins rock. Stevie Ray gets on my nerves. Anyone know when the next one comes out in the UK?

@chazpez said: Nightmares are the greatest thing. Since nearly every single one of my dreams consist of somebody or something getting murdered, mauled, maimed or mutated, I have come to like things like that.

@ Elorithryn said: No, I think that just makes you disturbed... and I mean that in the nicest sense possible (really and truely I do).

:} Elorithryn (quickly runs away from the dark corner as if ghosts are chasing her)

Yup. definitely disturbance going on there, but I do understand it. I'm a big fan of the horror genre too, and that stems from learning to accept my nightmares as just one more side of my sick personality. It also stems from eating cold chili in the middle of the night.

Well I have to say my nightmares border on the bizzar. The one I remember, which was only half a nightmare had to do with:

1) Being chased by School buses because I pick up and put on a sweater I found in the bus lot.2) Going to a dug fort in the middle of some trees, whith my dog and being run over by a buldozer and diying (I know they say you're not suposed to die in your dreams, but I swear I did)3) Possessing some girl at an amusment/Arcade/Dave and Busters (before Dave and Busters was created mind you) that you got on and off by zip lines because it was a Giant Cruse lines (think Titanic) that was cut in half, set on the ground and painted bright pink.

Strangely enough I can relate almost all of those things to events that happened in my life after the dream. Well, more or less.

But I tend to avoid the horros genre as my active imagination will not let it go, and I'll be chased by unseen horros for weeks to come.

:} Elorithyn (looks around and wonders why she popped her head back in here) {:

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